Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing, Deirdre David
Автор: Schulting, Sabine (free University Berlin, German) Название: Dirt in victorian literature and culture ISBN: 0367175711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367175719 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters Victorian writing - industrial novels, literature about the city, slum fiction, bluebooks, and the reports of sanitary reformers. It seems to be "matter out of place," challenging traditional concepts of art and disregarding the concern with hygiene, deodorization, and purification at the center of the "civilizing process." Drawing upon Material Cultural Studies for an analysis of the complex relationships between dirt and textuality, the study adds a new perspective to scholarship on both the Victorian sanitation movement and Victorian fiction. The chapters focus on Victorian commodity culture as a backdrop to narratives about refuse and rubbish; on the impact of waste and ordure on life stories; on the production and circulation of affective responses to filthin realist novels and slum travelogues; and on the function of dirt for both colonial discourse and its deconstruction in postcolonial writing. They address questions as to how texts about dirt create the effect of materiality, how dirt constructs or deconstructs meaning, and how the project of writing dirt attempts to contain its excessive materiality. Schьlting discusses representations of dirt in a variety of texts by Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, James Greenwood, Henry James, Charles Kingsley, Henry Mayhew, George Moore, Arthur Morrison, and others. In addition, she offers a sustained analysis of the impact of dirt on writing strategies and genre conventions, and pays particular attention to those moments when dirt is recycled and becomes the source of literary creation.
Автор: Grimes Название: The Late Victorian Gothic ISBN: 1138261378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138261372 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8114.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist s ances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de si cle. Hilary Grimes shows that both new technology and explorations into the ghostly aspects of the mind made agency problematic. When notions of agency are suspended, Grimes argues, authorship itself becomes uncanny. Grimes's study is distinct in both recognizing and crossing strict boundaries to suggest that Gothic literature itself resists categorization, not only between literary periods, but also between genres. Treating a wide range of authors - Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Du Maurier, Vernon Lee, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sarah Grand, and George Paston - Grimes shows how fin-de-si cle works negotiate themes associated with the Victorian and Modernist periods such as psychical research, mass marketing, and new technologies. With particular attention to texts that are not placed within the Gothic genre, but which nevertheless conceal Gothic themes, The Late Victorian Gothic demonstrates that the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.
Автор: Deirdre David Название: Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing ISBN: 0801482771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801482779 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 6006.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation.
David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as Charlotte Bront?'s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, and H. Rider Haggard's She, the historical and symbolic roles of Victorian women were linked to the British enterprise abroad.
Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral ideal, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire—such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire.
Автор: Rotunno Laura Название: Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898 ISBN: 1137323795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137323798 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.
Автор: Leiby Mary Название: The "respectables " and the "roughs " ISBN: 0530005794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780530005799 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17105.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Abstract: Examination of class-based constructions of the literary canon and the academy derived from standards of "respectability" and "roughness" inherited from Victorian culture; analysis of forgotten lower middle-class and working-class Victorian women writers' texts. Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The "respectables" and the "roughs"" by Mary Ann T. Leiby, was obtained from University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.
Автор: Alexandra Gray Название: Self-Harm in New Woman Writing ISBN: 1474452426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474452427 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Self-Harm in New Woman Writing` offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the British New Woman.
Автор: Felicity James, Julian North Название: Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian auto/biography ISBN: 0367264862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367264864 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contributions to this book analyse material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories. It was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Описание: This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens` works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens` interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination.
Автор: Saville Julia F. Название: Victorian Soul-Talk: Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic ISBN: 3319849182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319849188 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chapter One. Introduction: Poetic Soul-Talk and Civic Virtue.- Chapter Two. Transnational Republican and Feminist: The Political Ethics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Soul Poetics.- Chapter Three. "Citizen Clough," the "Soul's Own Soul," and the Dangers of Complying.- Chapter Four. "Talk inside the Soul" with Robert Browning's "Saviour of Society".- Chapter Five. "The Hum of Your Valvиd Voice" Walt Whitman's Soul and His Democratic Soul Politic.- Chapter Six. "Souls Overcast" and "The Shadow-less Soul" Swinburne's Elemental Republicanism.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.
Автор: Armstrong, Jolene Название: Cruel britannia ISBN: 3034315651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034315654 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 12431.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics examines four plays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971–1999), all written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the «Cool Britannia», or «In-Yer-Face» London theatre movement of the 1990s. Kane’s plays were notorious for their shocking productions and challenging and offensive subject matter. This book analyzes her plays as products of a long history of theatrical convention and experimentation, rather than trend. I read Kane’s plays through an optic of trauma theory, and link the trauma to postmodern experience as defined by war, inter-personal violence, repetitive memory, and sex as medium of violence. Kane’s plays’ unrelenting violence and graphic depictions of violent sex suggest a relationship with theories and practices such as Artaud’s theatre of cruelty, and Kroker and Cook’s theory of the postmodern as sign of excremental culture and an inherently abject state of being. Through a play by play analysis I conclude that Kane’s work suggests that violence and trauma are endemic to postmodern life, and are ultimately apocalyptic due to their culmination in Kane’s final play, the suicide text of 4.48 Psychosis.
Автор: Daly, Suzanne Название: Empire inside ISBN: 0472051342 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472051342 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3505.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels
Автор: Leiby Mary Название: The "respectables " and the "roughs " ISBN: 0530005786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780530005782 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12139.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Abstract: Examination of class-based constructions of the literary canon and the academy derived from standards of "respectability" and "roughness" inherited from Victorian culture; analysis of forgotten lower middle-class and working-class Victorian women writers' texts. Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The "respectables" and the "roughs"" by Mary Ann T. Leiby, was obtained from University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.
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